gedit

Efficient and free text editor

The official text editor of Gnome desktop environment is now ready to run on Windows. It is really efficient and totally free. Is has been very sucessful in other desktop environments and taht would be a good reason to give it a try.

Very versatile, it can highlight a good number of programming languages, among them we can stand out: C, C++ Java, Python, Fortran, Haskell, SQL, PHP or Javascript.

It consumes very few resources, what makes it very useful if don't have a powerful computer or if you need to open several documents at once.

Finally, if you don't have enough with the included functions and features, it supports add-ons which can make gedit to be even more powerful and useful.